Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

James Franco

As far as... what they've given me so far, in the last two movies -- I feel like I have the most kind of tortured character in the movies and so it's always great to play as an actor,

Jim Lynch

As a writer, I'm driven by settings. Others are driven by characters or predicaments, but with me, settings come first.

Matthew Lewis

As a character he is really great because he has got the funny sides and the comedy, but he also is kind of useless sometimes.

Camilla Luddington

As a female there aren't too many characters that are very empowering, and there's something very empowering about Lara Croft. She kicks butt and she does it in style. She's confident and she's educated.

Satya Bhabha

As an actor, one's role is very much to respond and react to the situation within the context of the character and his world.

Joel Edgerton

As an actor, I'm constantly striving to find the darkness in the lighter characters and the lightness in the darker characters.

Joe McFarland

The Big Ten is the premier conference, it's the toughest conference, and to do it week in and week out really says a lot about the character of these guys.

Sathya Baba

A virtuous character is the lamp which illumines the path to peace and joy.

Ayn Rand

The only man never to be redeemed is the man without passion.

Jane Hirshfield

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

Jane Fonda

I don't like the word 'calculated' because it sounds pejorative. Intentional. Intentional is better, I think. Wild in passion and intentional in expression.

Jane Fonda

I like to be wild in passion and calculated in expression! I'm both. I like to be wild in passion more. But I think the balance is what's essential.

Carl von Clausewitz

Savage peoples are ruled by passion, civilized peoples by the mind.

Celine Dion

Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity. You are so much more valuable than that.

Jane Addams

A Settlement is above all a place for enthusiasms, a spot to which those who have a passion for the equalization of human joys and opportunities are early attracted.

Jan Eliasson

Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Bar Refaeli

Have the passion and the magic will happen

Mark Rosenker

This is a tragedy that should not have happened.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

Andrew Solomon

I love to communicate, and I love music. That's why I always thought not being able to hear would be a tragedy.

D. H. Lawrence

Tragedy ought really to be a great kick at misery.

David Platt

God uses sorrowful tragedy to set the stage for surprising triumph-whether in this life or the life to come.

Thomas Sowell

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

Simone Weil

All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time.

Ruta Sepetys

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

Steve Perry

We have focused only on the negatives, and not enough on incredible stories of the human spirit and of rebirth and rebuilding. That's equally important as the tragedy.